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Rockstar has removed trillions of dollars from the GTA Online economy after taking away any cash made through mods or hacks. Any illegitimately gained in-game money has been removed from players’ accounts, with some accounts being reset to $0. This has mainly been targeted at those who have used external …
Read More »Industry veterans form new eSports focused VR studio, Drifter Entertainment
Three founders have experience with Oculus, ID and Microsoft
Read More »BAFTA announces 2016 Breakthrough Brits
Five in the video game industry make the prestigious list
Read More »Turtle Rock will no longer support Evolve
Turtle Rock has announced that it will no longer work on Evolve, despite recently releasing a big update on PC that made the game free to play. In a post on the Evolve forums studio co-founders Chris Ashton and Phil Robb announced that they were moving away from Evolve, after …
Read More »Epic Games reveal 6 new recipients from latest round of Unreal Dev Grants
Grants provide $160,000 in no-strings-attached funding
Read More »Gameforge pulls out of mobile, lays off 1/5th of staff
Nearly 90 people could be affected as Gameforge changes strategy
Read More »250 gather outside EA offices to support voice actors strike
Meanwhile, the coalition of games companies strike back with press release claiming all demands were met
Read More »Autodesk to support Game Republic for 2016-2017
Autodesk are the first sponsor for North England based games industry group
Read More »Gameforge quits mobile development and lays off around 90 staff
German publisher Gameforge has laid off a fifth of its employees and is pulling out of the mobile games market. Gameforge CEO Alexander Rsner told MediaBiz that mobile development had not been as lucrative or successful as the company had expected. He said that the PC free to play market, …
Read More »Microsoft hikes prices on enterprise software after currency collapse
Don't mention the B word.
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